Furio Honsell (born 20 August 1958) is an Italian

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and

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, former Mayor of

Udine Udine ( , ; fur, Udin; la, Utinum) is a city and ''comune'' in north-eastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Alps (''Alpi Carniche''). Its population was 100,514 in 2012, 176,000 with t ...

Biography

Graduated in mathematics at the

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in 1980, Honsell obtained a diploma in mathematics at the Normale of Pisa in 1983.

Academic career

Honsell has held research and tenured positions at the computer science department of the

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, the

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and the

University of Udine The University of Udine (Italian ''Università degli Studi di Udine'') is a university in the city of Udine, Italy. It was founded in 1978 as part of the reconstruction plan of Friuli after the earthquake in 1976. Its aim was to provide the Friul ...

. In his research interests are very broad, he has dealt with

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and semantics of languages. In 1990 he was appointed full professor of computer science at the

, where he directed the computing center until 1992, the department of mathematics and computer science from 1992 to 1995, and was Dean of the faculty of mathematical, physical and natural sciences from 1995 to 1998. In 2001, Honsell was elected Rector of the

, an office he held until 2008, when he ran as Mayor of Udine.

Political career

Mayor of Udine

In the local elections of 2008, Honsell was elected Mayor of Udine for the

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, endorsed by the

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and the

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. He ran again in the local elections of 2013, endorsed by the

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and the

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. He was re-elected mayor.

Regional councillor

On 18 January 2018, Honsell resigned as mayor in order to stand as a candidate in the regional elections in Friuli-Venezia Giulia the following spring with ''Open - Sinistra FVG'', a list supported by Article One, in support of the

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presidential candidate Sergio Bolzonello. Honsell is elected to the regional council and later re-elected in the following regional election. He is a candidate in the 2019 European elections with the

list as an independent close to Article One in the North-East Italy constituency; with 28,535 preferences, he comes twelfth as he is not elected. In the general elections of 2022 he runs for a seat at the

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in the single-member constituency of

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by the

, obtaining 25.98% and losing the challenge against the

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candidate

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Honsell, Furio 1958 births Living people Democratic Party (Italy) politicians Article One (political party) politicians 20th-century Italian mathematicians 21st-century Italian mathematicians University of Pisa alumni Mayors of Udine Academic staff of the University of Udine People from Genoa